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Re:The war on disinformation is a war on dissent by SiempreViernes on Saturday February 06, 2021 @09:44AM (#26046801)
Again, the title literality states an equivalence: "The War on Disinformation Is a War on Dissent".

If you want to level some relevant criticism of the OP then you are better off with the "read the actual article and not just the title" line.

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Re:The war on disinformation is a war on dissent by username90 on Saturday February 06, 2021 @09:48AM (#26046827)
It isn't, it states that THE war on disinformation, not any war on disinformation. You can see a similar headline here:

> The War on Drugs Is a War on Racial Justice

This article isn't saying that Drugs is Racial Justice.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/40971924?seq=1

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Re:The war on disinformation is a war on dissent by giantg2 on Saturday February 06, 2021 @09:54AM (#26046877)
That's because the article's point is that the war on disinformation is being wrongly used to squash dissent. If anything, the author agrees with your position that dissent is not the same as disinformation.
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Re:The war on disinformation is a war on dissent by tsimionescu on Saturday February 06, 2021 @05:28PM (#26050632)
The article is equivocating the war on disinformation with a war on dissent. That does NOT, in any way, mean that dissent and disinformation are the same thing.

If I were to write an article saying "the war on terrorism is a war against us all", would that mean that I'm accusing everyone of terrorism? Or claiming that terrorism doesn't exist?

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